'A Northwest Treasure’ - The internationally acclaimed saxophonist and composer performs with his Jazz Quartet. Featuring Mark, along with Randy Halberstadt, piano, Bob Merrihew, drums, and Clipper Anderson on bass.
All purchases are nonrefundable. First Sundays Concerts is open seating, doors open 30 minutes before the concert. Concerts are 60-90 minutes long with no intermission.
Saxophonist and flutist Mark Lewis has enlivened jazz scenes from Seattle and San Francisco to Rotterdam and Paris, and has created a vast and intensely stimulating body of music over the past four decades, including more than 1,700 compositions. Recent awards include Cadence Magazine Top Ten Critics Poll for 2021 for his album Naked Animals and #2 on alto sax and #3 on flute in the 39th Annual Jazz Station Awards for his album The New York Session, a collaboration with piano legend George Cables, bassist Essiet Essiet, and drummer Victor Lewis.
“A distinctive original” – Paul de Barros
“A Northwest treasure” – Jim Wilke, Jazz Northwest on KNKX, Seattle
Randy Halberstadt has been a major figure on the Pacific Northwest jazz scene for many years. A multi-dimensional pianist, he has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and with the Seattle Symphony. He’s the pianist for the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra and first-call accompanist for jazz vocalists. He has performed with Herb Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Buddy de Franco, Bobby Shew, Mel Brown, Jay Clayton, Ernestine Anderson and many others. Randy is a full professor at the prestigious Cornish College of the Arts and teaches annually at the Blaine Jazz Festival and at Jazz Port Townsend.
Clipper Anderson, bassist, has enjoyed a distinguished career as a composer, studio musician, performer, vocalist and educator. He plays at jazz festivals throughout the Unites States and Canada and has appeared on numerous recordings. Clipper has had the pleasure of working with some of the biggest names in contemporary jazz including Michael Brecker, Arturo Sandoval, Tamir Hendleman and Buddy De Franco. Clipper is an annual guest artist at the Buddy DeFranco/University of Montana Jazz Festival and the Blaine Jazz Festival. He is currently on the jazz faculty at Pacific Lutheran University.
Bob Merrihew studied music at North Seattle College and privately with Brian Kirk, Bill Kotick and Otis ‘Candy’ Finch. Since then he has worked in a variety of musical settings including a 7-year run as house drummer at the Pioneer Square Theater for the longest sold out run of a musical in Seattle history, “Angry Housewives” and a European tour with Mark Lewis. Bob was in the original Mark Lewis Quartet and their long association is obvious when you hear them perform together. “plays with such taste and support, never overriding the sound” – Chris Lunn, Ancient Victorys News.
Links: Mark's wesbite